by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 6, 2021 | Closed Institutions
According to the Penitentiary Service, sampling was carried out in all penitentiaries to detect COVID-19 virus. Persons with positive diagnoses kept in Goris, Armavir and Convicts’ Hospital penitentiaries were transferred to the pre-separated department of the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Oct 28, 2021 | Closed Institutions
Citizen Edik Martirosyan, who was forcibly put in a car by the police a month ago and taken to Nubarashen Mental Health Center, is in freedom now. The management of the psychiatric hospital discharged him today. Edik Martirosyan himself informed us about it. He has...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Oct 11, 2021 | Closed Institutions
The convicts are protesting against the RA General Prosecutor’s Office, which annulled the decisions made by the relevant commission of the Ministry of Justice to change their detention regime, and returned the convicts to their cells. People who had spent more...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Oct 11, 2021 | Closed Institutions
Aram Petrosyan, sentenced to life imprisonment, has been on a hunger strike since September 13. He demands that the management of the institution comply with the requirements of the Penitentiary Code and move him to a semi-open regime. Aram Petrosyan has health...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Oct 11, 2021 | Closed Institutions
Karen Hovhannisyan, a detainee in Nubarashen penitentiary, went on a hunger strike today. He has one demand: to stop the inhuman treatment of him, to punish his executioners, the law enforcement officers who made him disabled by torturing him two years ago, those who...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 16, 2021 | Closed Institutions
Human rights activist Sashik Sultanyan, chairman of the Yezidi Center for Human Rights, denies the accusation. In a conversation with Forrights.am, he described ithe accusationt as groundless, noting that the RA National Security Service carried out a one-sided...